Understandable Sentiment

"When The Economist encountered him, outside a derelict Buddhist temple in a ger district…and later at the nearby police station, he had just been punched and robbed of his phone by friends of the friend he had lent it to… He was drunk… He was cradling a little street-puppy he had rescued from his muggers, knowing his grandmother would not let him take it home. He presented as forlorn a picture as could be imagined of the pain and dislocation of being caught between two worlds. But he said he had no intention of going back to Virginia."